The tiny, constricting footprint of Manhattan is one of the things that turned it into a real estate juggernaut. At the same time, developers and futurists have dreamt of permanently expanding the city into the water around it. And they’re still trying.

You're probably already well aware that the universe is expanding; that big, black void up there is getting bigger with each passing second. But what's happening to us in the meantime? Are we getting embiggened? Or being ripped apart at the seams? Fortunately neither.

Watch Las Vegas massive growth since 1973 till now. It starts a bit slow, but then it becomes fast and unstoppable. It looks scary, especially if you are a coyote or a dead mobster buried in the desert.

We still haven't found the Higgs boson, the hypothetical particle that explains why other particles possess mass. But that might not be the only cosmic mystery the Higgs can solve. It could also explain how the universe got its shape.

Imagine you can insert a memory card in your brain and go all Keanu Wow, I know Jiu-Jitsu! Reeves. It's actually not that far away: Scientists have created a chip that allows rats to instantly know things. It's amazing.

Transflash or microSD or whatever you want to call it is quite tiny. Enter Stik and Store, a sticky memory key with a thin tape lead that ends in a T-Flash card. You can add up to 8GB to your phone by installing this thing just like an internal flash card and then threading the tape to the outside of the phone. It's…